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Latitude: 55.9562 / 55°57'22"N
Longitude: -3.1924 / 3°11'32"W
OS Eastings: 325647
OS Northings: 674325
OS Grid: NT256743
Mapcode National: GBR 8ND.VC
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XKZ8
Plus Code: 9C7RXR45+F2
Entry Name: 8A York Place, 8, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 8 and 8A York Place, Including Railings
Listing Date: 14 September 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370708
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29977
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 8, 8a York Place
ID on this website: 200370708
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Terrace house
Alexander Laing, 1798. 3-storey, attic and basement 3-bay terraced classical house. Broached ashlar sandstone; V-jointed rustication at principal floor. Base course; band courses between basement and principal floor, principal and 1st floors, 1st and 2nd floors; cill course at 1st floor; projecting cills at 2nd floor; mutuled cornice and blocking course at 2nd floor. Ashlar steps and entrance platt oversailing basement.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched tripartite doorway in bay to left at principal floor, incorporating 4-panel timber door flanked by pilasters and 3-light sidelights and aprons, surmounted by radial semicircular fanlight; windows in remaining bays at principal floor; regular fenestration to floors above and basement. Flagged basement area.
W ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (6 and 6A York Place).
E ELEVATION: adjoining terrace, see separate listing (10 and 10A York Place).
12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate M-roof. Later rectangular dormer to right. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Broached ashlar ridge stack; coped, with circular cans. Coped skews.
INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.
RAILINGS: ashlar copes surmounted by cast-iron railings with spear-headed and urn finials.
Part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, a significant examples of urban planning in Britain. Feuing in York Place began in 1793, after Lord Alva sold land to the north east of St Andrew Square to the city.
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